LibGuides: HUM-1020 v1: Week 2 Resources

Week 2 Resources

Colonial Expansion
Smith, E. (2017). Globalization and the colonial origins of the great divergence: intercontinental trade and living standards in the Dutch East India Company’s commercial empire, c. 1600-1800. Economic History Review, 70(2), 679–680. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=shib&custid=natuniv&direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.490108330&site=eds-live
- This resource gives an overview of how England colonized. It then discusses all of the colonies in New England, the south and the Middle colonies.
Colonial America
Lindert, P. H., & Williamson, J. G. (2016). American colonial incomes, 1650-1774. Economic History Review, 69(1), 54–77. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=shib&custid=natuniv&direct=true&db=bth&AN=112261621&site=eds-live
- This article discusses the levels of real and nominal incomes in the 13 American colonies, purchasing power, and industrial productivity during the seventeenth century.

The Middle Colonies in British North America
Andrews, D. E. (2012). Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North America. Church History, 81(2), 473–475. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640712001011
- These resources describe how colonial America was established and then how there were New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies.

INTELECOM. (2004). The unfinished nation-coming to America: Portrait of colonial life [Video file]. Films On Demand. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RrcLzGW_GI

This resource is a video that describes how colonial America was established and then how there were New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies.